Wall St. Insights Healthcare outcomes tend to improve with wealth and healthcare spending. In one advanced economy, however, ...

A recent survey sampling of over one million honeybee colonies found that colony deaths have reached an all-time high across ...

Americans are facing the highest death toll from influenza since 2018, just as more people become vulnerable because of ...

Black mothers are three times as likely as white women to die in childbirth, and Black fetuses and infants die at rates far ...

In 2021, Texas lawmakers passed a near-total abortion ban. The Texas Heartbeat Act allows an exception only if a pregnant ...

The Social Security Administration (SSA) processes over three million death reports annually, but a small fraction of these ...

The World Health Organization published its first-ever report on drowning prevention and included a major success story, a 38 ...

Rates of fatal drug overdoses are higher than expected in most states, despite a 14.5% decrease in the year leading up to June 2024.

Did people experiencing homelessness (PEH) have worse in-hospital outcomes from COVID-19 than housed people? New research published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal)    found no ...

Experts predict that death rates from breast cancer will fall in 2025 in every age group in the EU and the UK apart from in EU patients aged 80 years and older. In these older patients, overall ...

Nearly one-third of sharks are threatened with extinction, mostly due to fishing. While mandated releases are helpful, researchers discovered that they aren't enough to stabilize shark populations.